Pose Mastery
It’s not broken, it’s a custom
The head looks better than what was shown at wonder festival.
There’s no consistency on the designs even through the movies surely you don’t expect SW to keep design continuity between different mediumsSideshow isn’t an alternative for me, unfortunately.
And I guess I’ll always care about it lol, cause I’m “passionate” about the Clone Wars and it bothers me more than I’d care to admit how they get these figures in this line wrong for x reason. What really gets to me is when HT fails to realize how certain things are supposed to look like in live-action like the clone trooper pauldrons, kamas, etc., and they insist on giving them the animated style vs the ROTS live-action style. I remember when they announced Rex, I was so let down lol
I personally can haha, cause I’m solely referring to Lucas’s prime Prequels characters/designs.. not referring to OT or Disney Lucasfilm era designs or even BF (2015+), etc.There’s no consistency on the designs even through the movies surely you don’t expect SW to keep design continuity between different mediums
Prequel designs aren’t all consistent either, Kit Fisto’s face, battledroid voices etc are all different from film to film with no explanation.I personally can haha, cause I’m solely referring to Lucas’s prime Prequels characters/designs.. not referring to OT or Disney Lucasfilm era designs or even BF (2015+), etc.
Only Ventress remains, which is bound to happen inevitably at some point from here.
Prequel designs aren’t all consistent either, Kit Fisto’s face, battledroid voices etc are all different from film to film with no explanation.
Rex’s pauldron is canon, it just looks like that in live action. So other clones can just switch into it
HT frequently goes halfway. Half measures mean they have an open door for 2.0's so maybe it is intentional.While Fisto has a different design between AOTC and ROTS (I prefer ROTS design myself), the clones have a certain set design we saw for Phase I and II armours. Primarily, I’m referring to ROTS when it comes to certain things we saw in that film like the clone trooper pauldrons, kamas, other minute details, etc which are the live-action style for them. But even clones have a set design for their P1 visors as seen in AOTC, which is how Rex’s visor should have looked like in his own unique helmet. Even D Woon and other customizers got it right and not Hot Toys as they gave him the animated P1 visor style. Just like them getting the forearm armor wrong for CW Obi-Wan, another case where they failed to realize there’s a live action look for the forearm gauntlet armor. Etc etc, list goes on and on. Rex’s pauldron should’ve looked like the live-action style as seen in ROTS worn by the clone commanders, Disney and Hot Toys fitted him with the animated style. Rex’s outsole color is wrong too lol, should’ve been light grey just like EVERY clone trooper in live action. Guess why they went with white? Cause in the show, they all have white outsoles. 501st and Coruscant Guard figures have grey ones cause they’re basically based on the ROTS models, well more so the CG as that’s a carbon copy of the ROTS Shock Trooper cg model (Thire). Cody is a ROTS MMS figure. There’s all kinds of things I’ve picked up on that are wrong with Hot Toys clone figures, don’t get me started on why I’m not a fan of the other figures in the line like Ahsoka, Maul, etc.
Edit: HT 501st phase 1 bucket/inclusion in the set is wrong, the 501st had different markings in the show.
Echo and Fives helmets should’ve been P1.5 but they went with a made up “P1.75” style for them mix matching elements from their P1.5 and P2 helmets.
Kamas should be longer as in live action.
Hot Toys decided to give all clone figures the animated style for the DC-15S and DC-15A (I don’t know about the other weapons just the main ones).
501st is a weird blend. It’s more live action based but without the blue on the back like in the show and has the darker blue shade which personally doesn’t bother me but it should’ve been lighter teal blue like in the ROTS CG model or BF original game. Also missing the chest detail.
That’s all I got top of my head for now.
I’ll have to dig everything up, but I’ve got references and source images if you’d like to see.
And yeah.. I won’t budge on this lol.
Change of actor, improved prosthetics etc often result in small changes. Being an alien his appearance change could be part of his ageing/health etc. Not the same thing as an established design such as the shoulder pauldron and completely redesigning it to match the stylised animated look. If for ROTS they decided to plaster Christopher Lee in prosthetics to make him look like his cartoon appearance with the super elongated head we would all rightly complain and question why they even did it. Rex should have had ROTS pauldron, something that again Sideshow got right many years ago with their phase 1 Rex. (Curiously, their phase 2 Rex had the silly cartoon pauldron, so perhaps it was a licensor mandate. IIRC that figure was developed post Disney acquisition so perhaps all these silly design issues are down to the licensor not understanding what stylisation is and they simply mandate animated designs for realistic stuff despite it making zero sense)Prequel designs aren’t all consistent either, Kit Fisto’s face, battledroid voices etc are all different from film to film with no explanation.
Rex’s pauldron is canon, it just looks like that in live action. So other clones can just switch into it
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